Monday, 27 February 2017

Helping out Hi-end audiophiles with SongKong Melco and Naim solution

On Friday 24th of February we jointly announced a new version of SongKong for Melco, simply called SongKong for Melco. Melco are recognised worldwide for their high quality music library
systems made with the highest quality audio specific components that
allow music to be stored in digital format and then streamed to a music
player or connected directly to a DAC
(Digital Audio Converter) for connection to a conventional hi-fi system.

Alan Ainslie from Melco, recognising the difficulty their customers had
with poor quality metadata from previously ripped and downloaded songs,
came to SongKong for help with devising a simple solution for customers.
In partnership with Melco we have already made many improvements for all
SongKong customers, especially those with large collections including
Classical and Jazz.

Additionally with SongKong for Melco we have
solved an issue for customers with collection of Naim wav rips. The
popular Naim Uniti defaults to ripping to Wav format, it then looks up
metadata from AllMusicGuide and Cddb. But this metadata
is stored in a file called amginfo.xml or cddb.txt within the same
folder as the wav rips for the album rather than stored within the Wav
files themselves. This is fine as long as
you only play them via Naim but if you copied the files anywhere else no
metadata would show up for the Wav files, regardless of if the
amginfo.xml or cddb.txt files
were copied as well since only Naim Uniti could parse them.

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When the above option is enabled if you have any Naim wav folders
that contain the Wavs and the Amginfo.xml/cddb.txt file then the
metadata can now be embedded into the Wav
files themselves, this can now be read and used by most applications
and players such as MinimServer and Foobar2000.
Of course
you can additionally use SongKongs standard MusicBrainz and Discogs
functionality to find additional metadata such as high resolution
artwork.